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The shop where the winning £208 million EuroMillions was sold has finally been revealed.

Clifford’s Centra in Shandon Street, in Cork City, Ireland, sold the ticket to the lucky winner who has bagged the largest lottery jackpot.

The Irish National Lottery has released the phone call where the shop found out they had sold the winning ticket – and will receive £25,000 themselves.

The owner said down the phone: ‘This is a wind up is it? You’re joking me.’

Joking down the phone, he added: ‘That’s great news, I’m just gutted it wasn’t me who bought it.’

The winner, who has not yet been revealed, has made contact with the National Lottery.

This will be Ireland’s 18th winner of the EuroMillions jackpot and its largest ever win.

The National Lottery said yesterday: ‘A Cork retail store has made history, as the National Lottery officially confirms that the winning ticket for Tuesday’s (17th June) extraordinary €250 million EuroMillions jackpot was purchased in-store in the Rebel County.’

Former National Lotto winner Paddy Kehoe offered advice to this jackpot’s winner, telling whoever they are ‘to get it into their account as quick as they can’.

He told Metro: ‘I nearly took the National Lottery to court after they wouldn’t hand over the money quick enough.

‘They need to get on it and get it in their accounts.

‘You never know what’s going to happen, your house could burn down tomorrow so they need to sort it.’

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